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Last month, EzineArticles delivered 1,791,867 clicks to member websites alone. This is a new record since we began URL Click Tracking in June.

We won’t be releasing which articles received the most CTR (Click Through Rate) to prevent gaming of the system, but I can share that the top article received 12,147 clicks in September and there were at least 100 articles with over 1,100+ clicks per article.

This may seem like a stupid question, but what clicks are being counted? Clicks thru the URL in the resource boxes of articles? If so, how, and does the tracking introduce a Hop that kills the pagerank passing?

Armando,100% of the 1.79 million clicks were from EzineArticles visitors, but if you’re asking where OUR visitors came from, the usual sources: Repeat visitors, email alerts (million+ go out per month), RSS feeds, search engines, Web 2.0 sites, existing members who link back to their profile, etc.

I do realise you need to keep the individual articles quiet but I’d like to find out a couple of things, like what sort of percentage of click throughs to views 10%, 30%, 70%, got these sort of results? I’d also like to learn what is the average click through rate for articles – what’s good, what’s average and what’s low. For example there are 1000 views and 300 click throughs giving a 30% click through rate.

Are these new articles or have they been up for a while? What sort of time have they been published for?

This is so I can start to figure out what are good click through rates to aim for over what sort of time frame.

I’m figuring these articles are featured in the list of most published and most visited articles at the bottom of the pages for categories given the numbers. Is this about right?

I do understand that you’re working on more features for next year but I’m hoping you might have some data (that’s becoming information) about percentages of click throughs averages for articles so I can get a decent idea what to work towards.

I can tell you that AGE of the article has very little to do with the CTR that articles get. When I look at the top 100 articles that received the most URL CTR, I see a wide mix of recent and old articles…evenly distributed.

Most articles get between .5% and 9% CTR.

Also, we’re tracking each URL’s CTR, but we’re only providing aggregate CTR per article in the stats each member is provided. That may change in the future. Right now, we’re still data collecting to identify patterns.